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The Lockport Fire Fighters Local 1544 Honor Guard held its fourth annual candlelight bowl fundraiser Saturday. About 130 bowlers filled 26 lanes at the Lockport Strike and Spare 2 Bowling Center, according to Lockport firefighter and Honor Guard member Tom Clifton. "It's fun to get together with everybody," said Katie Gritsuk, a Lockport firefighter and Honor Guard drummer. "Generally, in the Honor Guard, we get together when someone died." Before the bowling began, the Honor Guard, consisting of bagpipe players and drummers, marched through the bowling alley performing "God Bless America" and "Amazing Grace." People raised their glasses and...

Frank Schmitt is one of the better bowlers on his Wednesday night Raven Energy League at Strike N Spare II in Lockport.
He carries a 209 average, and has missed a 600 series just four times in 29 weeks this season.
On March 4 and 11, however, the...

After winning the individual South Suburban Red bowling title this winter, Sarah Coffman is back in the pool for the Richards co-op water polo team.Swimming, water polo and … bowling?It's not the most common repertoire for a three-sport athlete, but...

More than 70 supporters of the Elmwood Park High School Athletic Booster Club showed up for socializing, food and some friendly bowling on March 7.
The Candlelight Bowl, held at Mont Clare Lanes, was one of three major fundraisers put on by the Booster...

Carmel graduate and Bowling Green University sophomore Lauren Feely scored 9.9 to tie for first in the vault at the Mid-American Conference women's gymnastics meet last weekend.
Feely also scored 9.725 to place 29th on floor and scored 9.5 on balance...

In the annals of video game legend, level 255 is the final frontier, the undiscovered country, the last playable level of Pac-Man.
If you were a teenager in the early 1980s, you probably assumed that, forgoing starvation, you could play Pac-Man to...

Five people likely to become leaders soon in Elgin-area politics and volunteerism gathered Tuesday with eight teenagers for a bowling and pizza party.
The parties' organizers were among the 2014-2015 class members of Elgin Area Leadership Academy, a...

A trip to West Lafayette on March 18 was a homecoming of sorts for Valparaiso assistant baseball coach Ben Wolgamot.
Wolgamot played two seasons for Purdue, earning all-conference honors at second base in 2008. The game marked his first against the...

Matt Kontos knows the difference between the high-buck, high-roller, high-intensity Thursday night Men's Classic League, and the easy-going Guys and Dolls mixed league on Monday at Centennial Lanes in Tinley Park."When you bowl in a mixed league it's...

Aurora University Library is displaying Persian Visions, an exhibit of 58 works of photography and video installations. The exhibit features 20 of Iran's more celebrated photographers and is on display until March 23.
"The exhibition gathers...

That scramble for seed at your bird feeder may not be as random as it appears.
Charles Eldermire and Hugh Powell take an interesting look at what exactly is going on at your feeder at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds blog. Power...

Soon the crashing of bowling balls against pins, the high-fives and the laughs will be silenced at a longtime Mont Clare establishment.
On April 4, Mont Clare Lanes and Banquets, 2957 N. Harlem Ave., will be closing its doors for good after 56 years in...

Anatol Denysenko was 17 years old when he joined his first full-time adult league.Earlier this season, on a Sunday night at Palos Lanes, he tossed his first sanctioned 300 game.To say it was a relief is an understatement."Kind of, yeah,"...

The sophomore has all the intangibles that make Lake Central girls bowling coach Stephanie Strickland smile from ear to ear. DYER — Who wouldn't want a bowler like Liana Motel on their high school sports team, let alone a high school bowling team?The...

The Aurora area has been a hotbed of bowling for a long time.
West Aurora qualified for the state finals 23 times between 1976 and 2007 before falling on hard times.
But the Blackhawks are back. They finished third at the Plainfield Central Sectional,...